Land ho! I just blew past my book’s halfway point. Now I’m on the side where the story has the potential to suddenly start moving very fast (writing-wise). Sometimes that gets it’s own momentum. With luck, three more weeks, maybe less.

I’m constantly moving around in the story, making changes. Everyone tends to say, “Don’t edit/revise as you write,” but really, it’s the most natural thing for me to do because it’s part of the creation process. It’s part of how I discover the story as I write, since I don’t know where everything is going.

And yeah, I did follow the “Don’t edit/revise as you write” for a while because it’s one of those pieces of advice that makes sense, which is what made it bad — the common sense feeling of it is why I did it. It’s actually unnatural for me to write straight through to the…